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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Spook-wise Christopher Moran’s ‘Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers, and the Cold War’1 takes us back to the 1970s and the appearance of CIA ‘defectors’, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp and Victor Marchetti, and the […]

[…] opposition which had afflicted Jack Jones.113 On the other hand, the fact that Fairclough recycles this old right-wing MI5 nonsense suggests that he may have been the spook he claims. So there was no ‘communist threat’ in post-war Britain? I wrote about this in 1993. I concluded then that there had been such a […]

[…] and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew when he was an undergraduate there. In this setting Beaumont – whether ex- spook or not – has written a very good, nicely written and gripping account of Sharman’s investigation of this network (and occasionally killing as the Russians try […]